*Exclusive: Nearly half existing facilities will need to close prematurely to limit heating to 1.5C, scientists say.*

The US Supreme Court has removed yet another obstacle (though not the biggest one) against buying politicians.

People accustomed to opposing the US's many unjust or avoidable wars face a dilemma about confronting Putin's war in Ukraine.

I'm one of the former group, more or less. But I have held short of generalizing that opposition to a universal conclusion that "fighting is always simply wrong." Most of the US's wars have been power-rivalry or imperialism (and I won't be surprised if it does those again), but aiding Ukraine is an exception and we need to recognize it as one.

*Experts Lay Out Proactive Measures to Defend World Against Future Pandemics.*

The first item in the list is protecting the forests where humans will occasionally catch new diseases from wild animals.

Putin is trying to intimidate Sweden and Finland, by threatening to move military units and weapons around if they join NATO.

Putin is talking about their membership in NATO as if it constituted a threat to attack Russia (which is not true). I think the purpose of that way of speaking is to encourage people to conceive of it that way.

Russia can move its troops and missiles around for any reason, or no reason. Putin could have moved troops to the Finnish border a year ago if it wanted to, but there was no reason to do so then, and will be no reason to do so next year, except to look bellicose. It wouldn't make any big difference in practice anyway.

This is just posturing, but it gives people something to panic about if they are so inclined.